CATHOLIC
DOCUMENTS AND STATEMENTS ON THE CHURCH AND JUDAISM
Papal statements:
Ecclesia In Europa, Post-Synodal Exhortation of Pope
John Paul II, June 28, 2003. See esp. paragraphs 55
- 56 on “In dialogue with other religions” from Section II: Bearing
witness in unity and dialogue.
Collection of Papal Statements: A helpful, though now dated, collection
can be found in Spiritual Pilgrimage: Texts of Jews and Judaism
1979 – 1995, compiled by the Anti-Defamation League, edited
by Eugene J. Fisher and Leon Klenicki, Crossroad, New York, 1995.
See also The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College
for a more complete collection of recent papal statements. (http://www.bc.edu/research/cjl/resources/documents/catholic/johnpaulii/)
Documents of Vatican II and the Roman Curia:
Vatican II Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian
Religions (Nostra Aetate), #4, (1965).
Vatican II Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium),
# 16, (1964).
Vatican II Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern
World (Gaudium et Spes), #22, (1965)
Guidelines and Suggestions for Implementing the Conciliar Declaration
Nostra Aetate, #4 (1974) – Issued by the Commission for Religious
Relations with the Jews (Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity)
Notes on the Correct Way to Present the Jews and Judaism in
Preaching and Catechesis in the Catholic Church (1985) – Issued
by the CCRJ
We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah (1998) – Issued
by the CRRJ
The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian
Bible (2001) – Issued by the Pontifical Biblical Commission
Documents and statements of the American Bishops:
Guidelines for Catholic-Jewish Relations (1967) – Prepared
by the Secretariat for Catholic-Jewish Relations and issued by
the Bishops’ Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs
(BCEIA), NCCB. Updated and revised, 1985
Within Context: Guidelines for the Catechetical Presentation
of Jews and Judaism in the New Testament (1986) – Issued
jointly by the Secretariat for Catholic-Jewish Relations, NCCB,
Adult Education Department, USCC, Interfaith Affairs Department,
ADL. Updated 1993.
Criteria for the Evaluation of Dramatizations of the Passion (1988) – Issued
by the BCEIA, NCCB
God’s Mercy Endures Forever: Guidelines on the Presentation
of Jews and Judaism in Catholic Preaching (1988) – Issued
by the Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy (BCL), NCCB
Catholic Teaching on the Shoah: Implementing the Holy See’s
We Remember (2001) – Issued by the BCEIA, NCCB
Collection: Catholics Remember the Holocaust contains the
text of the Vatican statement We Remember: A Reflection on the
Shoah and the statements of other national bishops’ conferences,
with an introduction and commentaries – Issued by the BCEIA, NCCB.
Additional Resources: Other statements by the Bishops’ Committee
on Liturgy on Celebrating the Seder, on the Good Friday Reproaches,
and on the Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust
are available. |
